A Star Trek film headlined by Oscar winning best actress Michelle Yeoh.
That film is Star Trek Section 31 and boy is this….
I don’t want to lead off with a negative. I want to start off positive.
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Did I mention it stars Oscar winning best actress Michelle Yeoh?
Oh yeah, I did.
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So let’s get on with it.
Star Trek Section 31 is really, really bad.
This “movie” is a disjoined mishmash of poorly conceived ideas that do not hold together well at all.
A little bit of background. The concept of “Section 31” was created during Star Trek Deep Space Nine as the dark underbelly of the utopian paradise we know as the Federation. All this peace, unity and harmony sometimes needs someone who will lie, cheat, steal and commit murder to preserve it. And that is the job of Section 31.
A lot of Trekkers think Section 31 is anathema to the ideals of Star Trek.
I reservedly concede Section 31 has a role in the Star Trek universe but it should be very rare, very limited and as an object lesson of the perils of going too far afield of the ideals of Starfleet and the Federation.
Star Trek Section 31 is anathema to the idea of a good movie.
The basic plot is standard issue spy mission to recover a super duper weapon thing that can destroy everything which does not really call for a super duper secret organization to carry out.
Michelle Yeoh is back as Philippa Georgiou, former emperor of the Terran Empire in the Mirror Universe, she finds herself holding court over Baraam, a space station turned night club as "Madame du Franc". Georgiou joins up with the intrepid Section 31 team to find out who came to her space station turned night club with a super duper weapon thing that can destroy everything.
The weapon is from the Mirror Universe. a nasty piece of work called the Godsend.
The courier with the Godsend is San, Georgio's former boyfriend from the Mirrow Universe.
Then stuff happens after which the movie ends.
Mercifully.
It's a chaotic mishmash of characters we do not care about, a plot that fails to engage any interest, clunky dialogue and jarring changes of tone.
It feels like the main reason Star Trek Section 31 exists is someone realized "Hey, we still have Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh under contract to make a Star Trek thing of some kind".
Michelle steals every scene she's in but I wish she had a better movie to purloin her scenes from.
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